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Monday, March 05, 2012

Excerpt: ...When I covered the Occupy Wall Street protests
last fall, I just couldn’t stay focused, despite the fact that people
from across the country and around the world were traveling to that
block-long half-acre park of granite walls and honey-locust trees in
lower Manhattan to build a new mini-society. It boasted free housing, free food, free medical care, free education,
and free music. Every day in Zuccotti Park there were thrilling rap
sessions and you could watch direct democracy in action as people came
together to exchange ideas in provocative new ways. To steal a
well-worn activist phrase, it looked like another world was possible. And there I was, staring across the street. While it seemed like 99%
of the 99% were captivated by the excitement in the park, I was
transfixed by the police. ... Read more at Tom's Dispatch.

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